As I think I mentioned yesterday, Larry, Wayne, and I are trying to get back on a more regular route schedule so today, being Wednesday, was the "big hill", a.k.a. the water tank hills. This is the series of five hills that starts at 800 E just north of the cemetery and climbs about 700 feet in 1.5 miles past the water tanks above Orem. We run a little over a mile to get there so the entire run is about 5.2 miles. No speed records today, but it was good visiting our old friend (this route). The weather was good and as usual the view of the valley was beautiful.
At noon I ran the Lake View 10K route with Tom. We were about 4 miles into it and running at about a 7:45/mi pace when Darin caught up to us. He said he had been chasing us for a while. He slowed down to run with us, but our pace for the last two miles still sped up to 7:26 and 7:27, with the last 0.2 at around 7:00/mi. Tom kept going for another mile at the end. My average pace for the 6.2 miles was 7:46.
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